Biggest Cruise Ship Accidents

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Biggest cruise ship accidents. Unlike ocean liners which are used. Horrible cruise ship events. 81 rows Costa Concordia The Italian cruise ship ran aground capsized and sank in shallow waters.

When an accident occurs deaths as a consequence can occur either more of less immediately or particularly in the case of exposure to contaminated air toxic chemicals or radiation some years later due to lung damage cancer etc. Purposeful disasters such as terrorist attacks are omitted. Let us know in the comments below some of your ideas for future top five videosSevera.

Lets start with the biggest two. British ocean liner RMS Lusitania was the worlds largest passenger ship for a brief time when it launched in 1906. Everyone knows the story of the Titanic the unsinkable ship that hit an iceberg in 1912 killing 1500 of the passengers and crew members.

Those events can be found at List of battles and other violent events by death toll. For todays video we decided to do the top five cruise ship disasters. 55 rows Lusitania passenger ship en route from New York to Liverpool.

A colossal container ship struck berthed expedition cruise ship in Hamburg Germany while leaving the port. 300 1647 Dutch Republic. On 13 January 2012 the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground capsized and later sank in shallow waters after striking an underwater rock off Isola del Giglio Tuscany resulting in 32 deaths.

This British ocean liner traveled the route between. The vessel was sunk on 7 May 1915 after being attacked by a German U-boat off the southern coast of Ireland killing 1962 passengers and 1191 crew members. White Ship Ship carrying the heir to the English Throne and the Duchy of Normandy and more than 300 others.